We're all addicted to smartphones. Are flip phones the miracle cure?

A new iPhone might be tempting at Christmas - but imagine escaping the endless distraction and becoming better organized in the process. I'll do it if you do

My Christmas present to myself is a new phone. Should I upgrade to an iPhone X or make the radical lifestyle choice to downgrade to a flip phone?

If you, me, and everyone we know had the sense we were born with, we would confront this decision armed with the following information: the Alcatel Go flip phone, which has GPS and photo and video capability, is $20 and has a battery life of 16 days. The Jitterbug 5 is $180 and can go one month without charging. The Samsung Gusto 3 is free, if you buy a $15-a-month call package from Affinity Cellular. (That's for 350 minutes of talk time and no data, because it doesn't support data. But you can text!)